The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
STRUCK DOWN BY THESUN
INTENSE SUFFERING CAUSED ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY.

sixtv-Two People Carried to Hospitals
in Chicago as Result of the Scorch-
ing Weather-A Regular Typhoon at
New York-The Record of Thirty
years Almost Outdone at Philadel-
phia.
CHICAGO, July 17-The hot weather Sat
prday was intensified to-day and there was
much suffering throughout the city. At
o'clock this morning the mercury had
reached 90 and by II it was at 1902. The max
mum was 102, and the hottest weather ex-
nerenced in Chicago for years, was reached
hv o'clock, and the temperature remained
nearly stationary until 5 o'clock. At 5
o'clock furious squall swept down upon the
lake bringing with it a heavy rain which
lasted half an hour. From the time of the
storm the temperature began falling rapidly
and at 8 o'clock tonight it hadsreached 70
degrees.
GO PEOPLE FRUSTRATED.
Up to II o'clock tonight the latest returns
show that sixty-two persons have died
either in or on their way to various hospitals
in the city since Saturday morning. These
deaths were all the direct result of sun
strokes OF heat prostration. A number of
patients in hospitals are in a state of como
tonight and the physicians consider their
cases hopeless. At the county hospital the
musicians and nurses have been working
almost increasingly for thirty-six hours
Such a degree of heat has not been ex-
perienced in Chicago in nearly thirty years
HORSE MADE MAD.
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probably fatally injured last evening by a
horse which it is supposed has gone mad
through the intense heat. The heat in Gales
burg III. has been terrific for the past six
DAYS, averaging 1907 in the shade. To-day
it reached 1040 and there were four deaths
from prOstration.
At Joliet, ILL.,, the thermometer registered
100 at daybreak and 113' in the middle of
the day.
A BLOW AT NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, July 17-The air was very
close this morning. Towards noon heavy
clouds filled the sky, and without any warn
ing a terrible wind and rain storm set in 1t
lasted nearly half an hour and was accom-
panied with rapid flashes of lightning and
heavy thunder. Trees were uprooted, win
dow shutters and signs were wrenched from
their fastenings, and several pedestrians were
injured. The wooden fence around Castle
Garden was blown down, as were also tele-
graph and telephone wires. Along the river
front and bay the storm ragged with great
fury. A police patrol boat steamed out into
the bay and rescued many persons who were
clinging to capsiZed sail boats Dr.
Cyrus Edison, of the health board, was
among the rescued. During the squall
a schooner was driven against the steamer
Erin for Liverpool and stove a large hole in
her side above the water line At Rocka-
way much damage was done, many small
houses being wrecked or damaged.
PHILADELPHIA swELTERING.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 17,-With the
single exception of July s, 1876, to-day has
been the hottest for over thirty years, the
heat being even greater than that of yester-
day. AT 2 o'clock this afternoon the ther-
mometer registered 1922 in the shade. being
Just one degree less than that of July s, 1876,
and one and quarter degrees greater than
yesterday. Up to a late hour to night
there have been about thirty cases of
sunstroke reported, fourteen of which
resulted fatally. At II o'clock tonight the
thermometer stands ST. Despite the swell
terlng heat DR.. McGlynn addressed a very
large audience in this city this evening, un-
Ger the auspices of the Anti-Poverty So
clety and was enthusiastically received. In
the hall where he spoke the thermometer
registered as high as 10S'.
SHOWER AT BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, July 17.-Intense warm
weather continued to-day, the thermometer
at O'Clock registering 90. A rain storm
OF short duration passed over the city about
! o'clock, after which pleasant breeze
nom the northwest afforded grateful relief
70 perSplring humanity. Up to midnight
SIX deaths from the effects of the heat were
reported. A number of cases of sunstroke
were were also reported, several of which are
likely TO prove fatal
10i' AT AUGUSTA
!, AUGUSTA, GA, July 17-This has been
the hottest day in years, the thermometer
Iodicatlng maximum temperature of 104'
A FATALITY AT CHARLESTON.
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